Thursday, November 29, 2012

2013 Book Reviews

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Books of the year have been selected ! Non-Fiction No Easy Day The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2012 How Children Succee...

Review: No Easy Day

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No Easy Day is Mark Owen's account of the mission that killed Osama bin ladin, and an autobiographical account of how he came to be ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

My Favorite 8 Trips

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I've traveled enough to have opinions on what trips are great. My criteria for the following list is simply this: Am I willing to repeat...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Product Review: Garmin GLO bluetooth GPS unit [guest post]

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For 2 years or so, I’ve been using a track-recording app on my Android phone to plot my courses on cycling and running excursions. I’m a cyc...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

9 Dives that I recommend

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My recent trip reminded me that I should list the best dives I've done. I'm not an avid diver, but I've been blessed with having...

Hawaii Big Island

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Hawaii Big Island XiaoQin, her parents, Bowen and I went to Hawaii from Halloween to Thanksgiving day this year. We'd arranged this thr...

Long Term Review: Keen Newport Sandals

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After the Great Sandal Hunt of 2012 , I did something very brave. I took my Keen Newport H2 to a 3 week trip in Hawaii as my only pair of ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Nexus 7 App Recommendations

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Now that I've had the Nexus 7 for a while, I can provide some recommendations for applications that are suitable for daily use on the ta...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Books of the Year 2012

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This year, I read 66 books , on average more than a book a week, including several graphic novels, including 25 novels most of which were ac...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Review: A Game of Thrones Season One

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I've made no bones about my contention that a Game of Thrones jumped the shark with book four, A Feast for Crows . However, the first th...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Review: Space Station Frontier

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I'm a sucker for tower defense games, and when Space Station Frontier was offered on the Amazon Appstore for free I picked it up. I pla...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

The Endorsement I'm Proudest Of

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I wasn't allowed to blog about this or write about this until today for the obvious reasons. But the best endorsement I'd ever heard...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

First Impressions: Windows Surface Tablet

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For unrelated reasons, my wife and I were near a Microsoft store today and we took the opportunity to drop by and check out the Windows Surf...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Tablet Lifestyle

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Google finally sent me a replacement Nexus 7 . Despite loading it up to less than 3GB a vailable, the random write ops were still well ove...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

First Impressions: Windows 8 Pro

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I'm not normally an early adopter, preferring to upgrade things after people have already eaten the beta. But Microsoft made all Windows...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Tips for running a rental business

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I've been running a rental business for a while now, and so has my wife. The income is very nice, the write-offs are really impressive, ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

16 GB Nexus 7 Followup, or, How NOT to do customer service

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I wrote about my problems with the Nexus 7 10 days ago. In the mean time, Google employees have tried to help me solve the problem. Some p...